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MANAGING MULTICULTURAL PROJECTS
WITH COMPLEMENTARY PRACTICES by Johanna Rothman
© 2001 by Johanna Rothman. All rights reserved.
THE RIDICULOUS BUSINESS OF ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
In the 1980s, managers in most companies would have called an IT project with a US $10- or $20-million budget "large." Some really huge companies -- like General Motors, Exxon, or Ford -- did projects with $100-million-plus budgets, but those were pretty rare. In the 1990s though, things changed. Budgets skyrocketed.
Enterprise systems are very large computer systems that promise to replace major chunks of a company's applications infrastructure with an off-the-shelf, third-party package. In the early- to mid-1990s, they were primarily enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems that focused on integrating the back-office, transaction-based subsystems required to run modern companies.
Executive Update
Facets of Decentralized IT
Whether to centralize or to decentralize is one of the perennial questions in IT. It never goes away; it just advances and recedes in an irregular cycle. Since this question is currently looming large in industry, this Executive Update analyzes data from Cutter Consortium's ongoing Business-IT Strategies Survey to explore the facets of decentralized IT.
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Taking Your Show on the Road
© 2001 by Johanna Rothman. All rights reserved.